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Excellent post about resolutions from one of my favorite professors of all time. Make 2013 count! If you fall off one day, pick yourself back up and try again the next day! Thanks for sharing Dr. Gary!

It’s about this time every year that I’m busted on my New Year’s resolutions.

Around the beginning of December you start thinking about the things you want to change in your life. When we’re full-blown into the holiday season, with Muzac Christmas carols running in all the stores, the downtown decorations are up, and everybody’s house glows at night with little twinkly lights. The scent of orange and cinnamon and cloves hangs in the air, giving you confidence that things are looking up.

Throw in an episode of Rudolph and several viewings of Christmas Vacation, and nothing seems impossible. You think to yourself, why, this could be the year you make some real changes.

Change all those nasty habits. All the things you don’t like about yourself.

So you begin to hope, to believe that at this one moment in time – this beginning of the new year –…